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Someone in Winslow, Maine didn't like Mr. Wood:
In Memory of Beza Wood
Departed this life
Nov. 2, 1837
Aged 45 yrs.
Here lies one Wood
Enclosed in wood
One Wood
Within another.
The outer wood
Is very good:
We cannot praise
The other.
Send this poem to a friend 1 On a grave from the 1880's in Nantucket, Massachusetts:
Under the sod and under the trees
Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
He is not here, there's only the pod:
Pease shelled out and went to God.
Send this poem to a friend 2 A girl who is bespectacled
She may not get her necktacled;
But safety pins and bassinets
Await the girl who fassinets.
--Ogden Nash
Send this poem to a friend 3 Brian is an idiot!
And everybody knows
When he goes to bed at night
He puts polish on his toes
Brian is so stupid
He sucks himself all day
And when I went to a farm once
And saw him eating hay
Brian is a numbskull
He loves a girl named Jade
And he wanted her to kiss him so much
Once he even paid
Send this poem to a friend 4 I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.
--Ogden Nash, "Verses from 1929 On"
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